A Pakistani national who had dropped off the feds’ radar screen for six years popped up last week in a most unexpected place – behind the wheel in a presidential motorcade.

Shahzad Qureshi, 42, was in the driver’s seat of a Cadillac Escalade awaiting former President Bill Clinton’s arrival Tuesday at Newark Airport, law-enforcement officials said.

His was one of three vehicles awaiting Clinton’s party outside a terminal for chartered planes when a Port Authority cop thought to check his license and found the Immigration and Naturalization Service warrant.

After Qureshi had skipped a residency-status hearing in 2000, a deportation order was issued, but the feds couldn’t find him. Now he’s in a New Jersey detention facility awaiting INS processing.

“You can run from us once,” an INS spokesman said, “but you don’t get a second chance.”